Out on €100,000 bail and risking a 10-year prison sentence, 50-year old Silvio Zammit pulls on his cigarette and looks out onto St Julian’s Bay from the terrace of his small restaurant, Peppi’s, on the northern coast of Malta.
He points to the stone walls that separate the sea from Sliema’s string of soulless residential buildings.
As a teenager, he tagged the walls with slogans in support of Malta’s former governing party.
“My life, my friends, my family are all in the Nat...
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Nikolaj joined EUobserver in 2012 and covers home affairs. He is originally from Denmark, but spent much of his life in France and in Belgium. He was awarded the King Baudouin Foundation grant for investigative journalism in 2010.